MSNBC: “Obama Comes Off As What He Is, Good Government Guy.”

11 12 2008

Good news!

Corporate mass media has thoroughly researched it, and unanimously exonerated Obama from any and all ties to Blogajevich after Obama said he knew nothing on the subject matter. I guess Obama never even went to the Capitol building in Illinois.

Basically, even centuries-old Chicago style politics, are repelled by Obama’s overall Teflon goodness, or that’s what Joan Walsh on MSNBC says.

Chris Matthews piled on Walsh’s nauseating adulation, with a completely disingenuous segue, blaming one-party dominance and the need for competition….in government.

Side note:

These people seriously do not understand that government encroachment doesn’t foster competition, absence of government does.

Where else than in nature, is competition’s unbridled rule, more evident?  Liberals worship Darwin.  How is this over their heads?  Naturally, mankind competes, and so therefore, open markets can maximize competition and allow for progress.

Liberals still believe politicians who say, “hi I’m from the gov’t and I’m here to help.“  And they have manifested their fantastical hopes for a benevolent monarchist in Obama, the “good government guy.”

A man from in Chicago hasn’t garnered this much loyalty since Chris Farley and George Wendt did Ditka.

UPDATE: Howard Fineman channels OutOfTheBlu and declares Obama hermetically sealed from Blago-gate.





Homeland Security Chief’s House Cleaned By Illegals

11 12 2008




The Market Rejected Their Cars. Will Pay Anyways.

11 12 2008

I’ve avoided the Big 3 Bailout topic  because I keep going vacillating on what to do.

This article highlights some of the lesser known problems with the UAW,

As is now clear, when the UAW exposed the Big Three to insurmountable competitive disadvantages, it cut its own throat.

The very companies that operate as nonunion transplants in the United States have always confronted a unionized workforce at home, organized by the Japanese Automobile Workers Confederation.

The UAW simply never established any sort of alliance with the Japanese Automobile Workers Confederation. And yet the UAW leadership knew plenty about Japan and the Japanese labor movement. The leader of the Japanese Automobile Workers Confederation was Ichiro Shioji. As David Halberstam noted in his 1986 book, “The Reckoning,” Shioji spent a year at Harvard in 1960 and then spent a summer at the UAW headquarters in Detroit, befriending all the major UAW leaders, including Walter Reuther, Leonard Woodcock and Douglas Fraser. Shioji was no stranger to the UAW.

Nor were the UAW leaders unfamiliar with Japan. In 1980, for example, UAW President Fraser (fresh off helping Chrysler secure its 1979 bailout) spent a week there talking with major Japanese car companies about building plants in the United States. Just before embarking on his trip, Fraser told a UAW convention that he would demand “that foreign companies that benefit from our markets contribute to them by building products here.” In a gesture of bravado that today seems almost suicidal, Fraser declared that “the U.S. market needs the discipline of foreign competition.”

If the UAW really is to blame at all, then, it is because of the union’s utter failure to unionize any of the transplants. What has the UAW been doing all these years? Isn’t it the responsibility of any good union to protect union employers from competitive labor disadvantages by organizing wall to wall, throughout the industry? How could it have left these transplants unorganized?

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Joe The Plumber “Appalled” By Mccain

11 12 2008